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. 2014 Dec 26;9(12):e115065. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115065

Table 3. Assumption checking and diagnostic testing functionality from NMA R packages gemtc, pcnetmeta and netmeta.

Tasks Features gemtc pcnetmeta Netmeta
Assessing Heterogeneity Visual inspection - forest plot
Pairwise statistics
Global statistics
Assessing Inconsistency Visual inspection - forest plot of direct vs. indirect
Visual inspection – heat map ✓ (net heat plot)
Consistency statistics
Back-calculation
Node-split/decomposition
Goodness of model fit Deviance information criterion (DIC) NA
Akaike information criterion (AIC) NA NA